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noun

Mutiny n. (pl. mutinies)

Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination. "In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader."

Violent commotion; tumult; strife. (Obs.) "To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves."

Mutiny act (Law), an English statute reenacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion.

Synonyms: See Insurrection.

verb

Mutiny v. i. (past & past part. mutinied; pres. part. mutinying)

To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.

To fall into strife; to quarrel. (Obs.)

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"Mutiny" Quotes from Famous Books

... lion fawneth o'er his prey, Sharp hunger by the conquest satisfied, So o'er this sleeping soul doth Tarquin stay, His rage of lust by grazing qualified; Slack'd, not suppress'd; for standing by her side, His eye, which late this mutiny restrains, Unto a greater uproar tempts ...

— The Rape of Lucrece • William Shakespeare [Clark edition]

... is, he is in the hands of these rascally Portuguese officers. I told him that, if he ordered me to do so, I would undertake with my men to arrest the whole of them; but he said that that would bring on a mutiny of all their troops; and this, bad as the situation already was, would only make matters much worse. I then suggested that, as the French are driving their trenches towards those two old redoubts outside the wall, I would, if he liked, place our ...

— Under Wellington's Command - A Tale of the Peninsular War • G. A. Henty

... show how well known to her were those Indian scenes of which Windham went on to speak. He talked of tiger hunts; of long journeys through the hot plain or over the lofty mountain; of desperate fights with savage tribes. At length he spoke of the Indian mutiny. He had been at Delhi, and had taken part in the conflict and in the triumph. What particular part he had taken he did not say, but he seemed to have been in the thick of the fight wherever it raged. ...

— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille

... World was borne in triumph to the gates of the town. An exiled chief, however tyrannous and hateful, hath ever some friends among the desperate and lawless; and success ever finds allies among the weak and the craven,—so many Northumbrians now came to the side of Tostig. Dissension and mutiny broke out amidst the garrison within; Morcar, unable to control the townsfolk, was driven forth with those still true to their country and King, and York agreed to open its gates ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... deny. Certainly with this work going on year after year in every city in the Netherlands, and now set into renewed and vigorous action by a man who wore a crown only that he might the better torture his fellow-creatures, it was time that the very stones in the streets should be moved to mutiny. ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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